A Goshen County man facing up to 80 years in prison for allegedly siphoning nearly $700,000 from his father’s businesses is demanding a speedy trial.
Logan Reifschneider, 31, is now in Goshen County District Court facing eight felony forgery charges stemming from what investigators describe as a years-long scheme involving payroll, customer payments, checks and transfers.
His attorney, David S. MacDonald, filed the demand Thursday, just three days after Reifschneider’s preliminary hearing Monday.
The entire case was bound over to Goshen County District Court following that hearing, the clerk of district court confirmed.
The case is now before District Judge Edward A. Buchanan.
Reifschneider received a $5,000 cash bond after his arrest and was longer appearing on the Goshen County jail’s current inmate roster as of Friday.
The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation alleges Reifschneider siphoned $688,477 from Zell Heating & Cooling and Big Wood Tree Service — two businesses owned by his father.
Investigators say the money disappeared through a mix of forged checks, inflated payroll, diverted customer payments and transfers into accounts Reifschneider controlled.
‘Ill-Gotten Gains’
The case stretches back to Reifschneider’s time working as office manager for the two businesses from June 2020 until about October 2024.
The position gave him extensive access to the companies’ finances, including payroll, accounting information and Automated Clearing House, or ACH, transactions, according to a probable-cause affidavit written by DCI Special Agent Jon Briggs.
Eventually, the father noticed the businesses were struggling financially and hired an accountant to look at the books.
The review uncovered a substantial amount of money that could not be accounted for, Briggs wrote.
The father and others confronted Reifschneider about the suspected thefts, and Reifschneider stopped working for the businesses.
The accountant also discovered checks believed to contain forged signatures.
By February 2025, the Goshen County Sheriff’s Office had asked DCI to investigate.
Investigators served numerous search warrants on financial institutions in Wyoming and Nebraska, along with others around the country. The resulting financial records were eventually turned over to an FBI forensic accountant for another look.
He described money investigators believe Reifschneider received beyond his legitimate earnings as “ill-gotten gains.”
Following The Money
Investigators say the money left the businesses in several different ways.
DCI identified $161,790 in payments made directly to Reifschneider but disguised in the companies’ books to look like payments to legitimate suppliers.
Another $159,634 came from customer payments diverted through Square or Intuit rather than going to the businesses, the affidavit shows.
Payroll accounted for another $138,609, which investigators characterized as excess payments to Reifschneider, including some payments coded as though the money belonged to other employees.
Through ACH transactions, checks and other transfers, another $113,177 allegedly landed in accounts belonging to Reifschneider or businesses he controlled.
Investigators also identified $81,267 in unauthorized company payments made on Reifschneider’s behalf, along with a separate $40,000 payment from one of the businesses to an account he controlled.
From June 2020 through October 2024, Briggs calculated Reifschneider’s legitimate income from the businesses at approximately $298,214.
Investigators say Reifschneider returned some money as well.
After he stopped working for the businesses, he paid his father approximately $6,000 through personal checks, Briggs wrote. Other money was returned while he was still employed and was factored into DCI’s calculations.
Eight Checks, Eight Felonies
While DCI alleges hundreds of thousands of dollars were improperly diverted, the eight felony charges center specifically on eight checks investigators say contained forged signatures.
The checks were written between April and September 2024.
The smallest was for $292.95.
The largest was $8,318.30.
Some appeared to be payments to legitimate suppliers. Others were made directly to Reifschneider.
An April 17 check made out to Reifschneider was for $815.12. Another dated Aug. 23 was for $3,195.81. A Sept. 7 check was made out to him for $1,025, while another dated Sept. 19 was for $2,158.
Other checks were made out to Torrington Office Supply, Dennis Supply, Gustave A. Larson and Johnstone Supply.
Investigators allege Reifschneider signed his father's name to the checks, and those checks became the basis for eight felony forgery charges.
DCI arrested Reifschneider Aug. 12. He was booked into the Goshen County jail that night before later receiving a $5,000 cash bond.
Already On Probation
The current prosecution isn't Reifschneider’s first criminal case involving money.
When DCI arrested him in August, Reifschneider was already serving supervised probation for a separate grand-theft conviction involving WyHy Federal Credit Union.
That case also involved transactions that investigators alleged did not have enough money behind them.
In February 2025, Reifschneider used the third-party payment platform ProPay to put thousands of dollars into accounts he held with WyHy, according to an affidavit written by Cheyenne Police Detective Mike Webster.
The money initially appeared in his accounts.
Reifschneider then transferred, withdrew or spent it, investigators alleged, but the underlying transactions didn't clear.
Four transactions totaling $8,902.47 were ultimately returned for insufficient funds, and WyHy calculated its loss at $8,725.59.
When Webster interviewed Reifschneider on May 16, 2025, Reifschneider acknowledged the credit union had contacted him about problems with the accounts.
He said he would repay the money by May 23.
He didn't, Webster wrote.
When the detective contacted him again June 17, Reifschneider again said he would get the money paid.
By July 11, the credit union still hadn't been repaid.
Reifschneider was convicted of grand theft June 4, 2026.
He was sentenced to three to five years in prison, but that prison term was suspended. Instead, he was placed on three years of supervised probation.
The conduct alleged in the current Goshen County case predates that probation.
Another Suspended Prison Sentence
It also wasn't Reifschneider’s first suspended prison sentence.
Court records previously reviewed by Cowboy State Daily show Reifschneider was convicted Nov. 27, 2017, of fraud for writing a $4,000 bad check.
He was sentenced to three to five years in prison.
That sentence was also suspended, and Reifschneider was instead placed on five years of supervised probation.
Court records also show another grand-theft charge against Reifschneider was dismissed in September 2023.
Now, nearly a decade after that first fraud conviction, Reifschneider is back in District Court facing a potential maximum of 80 years behind bars.
Kolby Fedore can be reached at kolby@cowboystatedaily.com.
